Registered Nurse HonorHealth Cancer Care Float Pool Per Diem

HonorHealth•Phoenix, AZ

4d•Onsite

About The Position

The Registered Nurse (RN) in the HonorHealth Cancer Care Float Pool plays a crucial role in providing patient care across various settings. The RN's practice is guided by the ANA Standard for Professional Nurse and Code of Ethics, requiring knowledge of professional nursing principles, practices, concepts, and procedures. Responsibilities include recording patient history, assisting with diagnostic tests, operating medical equipment, administering treatments and medications, and managing patient follow-up and rehabilitation. The RN establishes and contributes to patient care plans, which may involve administering medications, managing IV lines, observing patients, and consulting with physicians and other healthcare clinicians. Additionally, the RN educates patients and families on managing illnesses, post-treatment care, diet, nutrition, exercise, and self-administration of medication. The RN also provides direction to licensed practical nurses and nursing aides, delegates tasks appropriately, and supports the advancement of clinical knowledge and skills through precepting new staff and students. Continuous enhancement of knowledge in nursing management and care of patient problems and conditions is expected.

Requirements

Associates or Diploma in Nursing.
1 year RN experience for all Float Positions.
Basic Life Support (BLS) - Certification.
Registered Nurse (RN) - License State And/or Compact State Licensure as a registered nurse in the State of Arizona Upon Hire.

Nice To Haves

All Diploma and ADN hires must Complete a BSN within 60 months of hire OR have 5 or more years of Registered Nurse experience (including direct patient care or indirect RN roles) at the time of hire.
National certification for unit specific patient population.

Responsibilities

Collects health data in a systematic and ongoing manner, prioritizing data collection based on the patient’s immediate condition or needs, and involving the family.
Analyzes assessment data to determine diagnoses and utilizes nursing diagnoses to develop, implement, evaluate, and revise an appropriate patient plan of care that is family-centered, developmentally and age-appropriate, and culturally relevant.
Identifies expected outcomes individualized to the patient and their specific health problems.
Develops plans of care that are individualized to the patient’s condition or needs, reflecting current nursing practice that is evidence-based, providing for continuity of care, and are family-centered.
Implements interventions in the plan of care, initiating treatments, medications, emergency, and resuscitative measures based on appropriate utilization of standing orders, policies, and procedures.
Provides nursing care to meet the physical, emotional, spiritual, and social-cultural needs of the patient and family utilizing a family-centered approach to care delivery.
Evaluates the patient’s progress toward attainment of outcomes.
Documents observations, nursing interventions, therapeutic measures, multi-systems monitoring data, and other data relevant to the patient’s care in a retrievable form.
Provides ongoing evaluation of the quality and effectiveness of the care plan to ensure that they maintain and enhance patient outcomes that promote the delivery of cost-effective high-quality healthcare.
Evaluates one’s own nursing practice in relation to professional practice standards and relevant statutes and regulations of the system and department policies and maintains current knowledge in nursing practice.
Systematically evaluates the quality and effectiveness of nursing practice.
Integrates ethical principles in all aspects of practice.
Enhances knowledge of culture and diversity needs for specific populations.
Collaborates with others in the practice of nursing professional development at the institutional, local, regional, and state levels.
Interacts with and contributes to the professional development of peers and other health care providers through positive role-modeling, fostering peer relationships, and participating in preceptor and/or mentor programs thereby creating an environment for quality practice.
Collaborates with members of the multidisciplinary team in assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating patient care delivery.
Collaborates with the patient, family, and other health care providers in providing patient care.
Develops and evaluates standards of care for patients that are evidence-based.
Identifies changes that should be made in nursing practice using an evidence-based approach and facilitating the initiation of, adoption of, and adaptation to change.
Participates in and uses evidence-based research to identify strategies for improving nursing practice and patient outcomes.
Designs, creates, and applies research by supporting the integration of research into practice fostering the use of systematic evaluative research with regard to clinical, educational, and managerial data.
Considers factors related to safety, effectiveness, and cost in planning and delivering patient care by utilizing all resources effectively and efficiently.
Precepts new hire staff and students.
Assists staff and students to seek and complete the tasks required to complete their competency skills.
Continues to enhance their knowledge in the nursing management and care of patient problems and conditions as required.

Benefits

Great care starts with great people.
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Nine acute-care hospitals
Over 200 primary, specialty and urgent care centers
More than 17,000 team members and 4,000 medical staff
Since 1927, we’ve been focused on doing what matters most — caring for people and communities across the greater Phoenix area.
From humble beginnings to one of Arizona’s largest nonprofit healthcare systems, we’re just as driven as we were a century ago.
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